Damn it, Safari crashed. So now a shorter version of my answer: First I agree that the current design has become quite confusing. Personally I really dislike the single @Js annotation approach because: - can be applied everywhere so you throw away some compile time checks provided by Java's @Target annotation - exports vs. export is a bit misleading. One must be used with interfaces/classes the other with methods. That issue only exists because @Js alone has no real meaning. - You have to type more because it is always annotation name + property + value if you can't stick with the default "@Js". - Can't see a good use case for splitting exports in ALL, INSTANCE_MEMBERS and STATIC_MEMBERS. When I want to export a class I want to export its public API.
Personally what describes JsInterop best is the alternative using the import/export concepts. So I would stick with: Import/Export types: @JsImport: can only be applied on interfaces. @JsExport: always exports all public API in a given scope (package, class, method). So no ALL, INSTANCE_MEMBER, STATIC_MEMBER distinction. @JsIgnore can be used to opt-out selectively. Configure import/export: @JsNamespace: import/export from/to namespace @JsName: workaround reserved keywords @JsProperty: mark method as JS property @JsIgnore: opt-out of export. Might even be useful for import, e.g. do not generate trampoline for annotated default method. Special constructs: @JsLiteral @JsFunction (currently it seems not to be a real function which breaks interop <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/PHtfLTSAJDM/oJjAo3qWa7sJ> ) I guess that is the cleanest you can get. Not sure what @JsOpaque is good for?! -- J. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/778b8f0b-8cc1-4a90-84d5-39c1b9c02afb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
